BackCinema and the Invention of Modern Life
(book in English)
Edited by Leo Charney and Vanessa Schwartz
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- History of Cinema
- history of cinema, early cinema
- Publishing Date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 420 pages • 35 €
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm) - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 0-520-20112-4
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Book Presentation:
Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums.
See the publisher website: University of California Press
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